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Anti-Americanism in European Literature

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137016027

ISBN: 978-1-349-29890-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 1 –15

[In the spirit of German Romantic Friedrich Schlegel, who claimed ironically that “all things that are rightly One are usually Three as well,”1 the present study addresses a single topic that is also a trinity. As a unity it concerns the tradition of vilifying the United States as “that most...
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Chapter 2The Invention of Anti-Americanism

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 17 –53

[The question of the origins of anti-American discourse is both contentious and complex. The most radical answers go as far back as to 1492, the argument being that the discovery of the New World initiated the use of America as a mirror of Europe.1 However, since anti-Americanism concerns itself...
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Chapter 3Ambiguous America

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 55 –90

[The history of European anti-Americanism is sometimes cast as an unbroken tradition, where prejudices and negative stereotypes are passed on unchanged from one generation to the next, and where the emotional intensity remains constant at all points in time. Since anti-American discourse does...
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Chapter 4Anti-American Futurology

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 91 –130

[If the interwar period saw anti-Americanism regain the ideological certainty it had lost toward the end of the nineteenth century, it happened largely by way of compensation, as a way of dealing with Europe’s crisis after World War I. As Eric Hobsbawm has pointed out, the nineteenth century was...
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Chapter 5Before the Tribunal

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 131 –165

[Cultural conservatives of the interwar period had imagined a Europe in decline, stuck helplessly between the pincers of two new world powers seemingly destined to decide its future. If it had not happened already, World War II made this nightmare of cultural philosophy come true. As a result of...
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Chapter 6A Hyperpower Gone Mad

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 167 –197

[The period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was in many ways a time of transition, bridging an age of ideologies and an age of terrorism. While these 12 years—roughly the 1990s—were never the “end of history” they were sometimes made out...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Gulddal, Jesper

Pages: 199 –208

[This book has argued that fictional literature for more than two centuries has been crucially involved in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism—rather than being simply a relay station, literature is one of the places where this discourse is produced and one of the main...

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